Komets

The Komets have not released David Starenky. He's heading to Detroit today to do some extra training on his day off which is why he had his equipment bag and some sticks with him as he left tonight. He prefers to do the on-ice training in full gear. He'll be back in town by Sunday night and back at practice Monday morning.

You can ready today's column here, with video of Podshendyalov's goal

You can watch them here.

I don't think the Komets look half as good as they did last night, but they are winning 2-0. A very workmanlike effort. They so far haven't made the big defensive mistake, though Nick has gotten some help from a couple of goalposts. Strange weekend. Not a ton of energy in this game, which means it's

And he thinks the CHL is significantly better than last year. I'm not sure I agree, but I don't necessarily disagree. Haven't seen enough yet. What do you think?

With some good shots of the first two goals.

You can read it here. Interesting quote from Colin Chaulk, but he didn't care to expand on that.

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I thought the Komets played pretty well, actually. I thought Bryan Hogan stole the game for the Gems. The Komets played 65 percent of the game in the Dayton zone, I thought they got guys to the front of the net, but he still made the saves, especially early. I didn't think Nick could have done anything on any of the goals. The two Dayton PP goals were off the same play where the guy sneaks around behind and he's wide open because the defenseman lost him. The 2 on 1 became a 2 on 1 when the defenseman dove to try to breka up the pass and missed.